Turkey and Syria earthquake: ‘As soon as he looked at me, I started crying’
Syrian American Medical Society"The look in this child's eyes really got to me," says Dr Ahmed al-Masri. "I don't know why but as soon as he looked at me, I started crying."
It was more than 30 hours after Monday's devastating earthquake and he was exhausted.
He and just one other doctor were treating scores of injured people being brought to their hospital in Afrin, a town in opposition-held north-western Syria.
Then, seven-year-old Mohammed arrived, having been dug out from beneath the rubble of his collapsed home.
Rescuers found him lying beside the body of his father, who had been crushed to death along with his mother and his siblings.
"The way the boy was looking at us, I felt like he trusted us, he knew that he was in safe hands now," Dr Masri tells me in a Zoom call.
"But I also felt he had a lot of strength, like he was holding in the pain of his injuries. What makes a seven-year-old child so strong and resilient"Dr Stephen Reaney is wearing a light-blue shirt and black puffer jacket. He is standing in an example of one of the tent-like hospital rooms he works in across the globe, which was on display at Dundonald Elim Church " class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/>
